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| Russia saw through NATO's bluff |
| 2023-08-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Elena Karaeva [RIA] Military exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance consisting of two and a half hundred soldiers from Luxembourg (yes, as it turned out, there is also an army there) and France will start today at the Romanian Babadag training ground. The goal of any maneuvers is not only to improve combat coordination, but also to impress a potential enemy, that is, the Russian army. The second in terms of firepower and combat capability in the world, as the specialized publication recently reported. And if Luxembourg is intrusively challenging us with a military challenge, it's time to look at how NATO's policy in Europe looks in principle today. About how the NATO authorities bluffed, promising "not to expand to the East", is well known. Back then, a bluff was required to mislead a potential strategic adversary. But it turned out that the tactics of a petty gambler today are also used by NATO in relations with those countries that the organization seems to support, which it helps and which, as naive people believed, it could defend from "villain dictators" or would protect from "aggressive Russian bear." Although Luxembourg plays the first violin in the NATO maneuvers in Romania that have begun (not a joke), this is decorum. They join NATO to hide behind the United States . And that's all Washington needs. Complete control over those nailed under the umbrella - and ruthlessness to those who want to join. This was reminded by Jeffrey Sachs, once the favorite of the entire globalist elite, who has now become a pariah, because the economics professor burns in such a way that no one seems a little. Sacks said that, firstly, "the United States considers Ukraine its trophy," but did not stop there, adding that they intend to turn it "into a second Afghanistan." A trophy or not a trophy is not so interesting, since it has been obvious to us for the last fifteen years, but about "European Afghanistan" - the thesis is not without interest. And, for all the unexpectedness of the analogy, it is quite accurate, albeit sharp. We remember the events 22 years ago, when the coalition went to Afghanistan put things in order (about the reason and the reason - another time), dragging him by force to a democratic paradise. The methods of democratization - carpet bombing and intense shelling - were incredibly bloody. The Americans behaved like lawless people, firing missiles when they wanted, where they wanted, and at those they wanted. A wedding, a village holiday, a procession - it never mattered. After all, they were shooting at those who are non-Americans and non-Europeans, whose lives do not matter at all. And it did not play any role that citizens and women loyal to the Westerners became both collateral losses and victims of friendly fire. By the way, we saw them when they grabbed the chassis of the NATO sides, on which the military from, as they say, the most powerful armies in the world, gave a tear from the Kabul airport exactly two years ago. Twenty years of coercion to progress and Western "values" turned into chaos and a complete military-political fiasco. The government, which lived on Western money, with what it could not squander, managed to fuss, evacuating with suitcases of banknotes. Shameful ending - because the enemy was underestimated. In the event of the current crisis (and here the words of Sachs are more than fair), America and its European landsknechts, to which Ukraine also considers itself, exactly the same thing happened. As if the program was frozen in a long-standing matrix: underestimation of the potential of the enemy, this time - Russia. The same contempt for Russian society and its ideals, and as a result - a chain of defeats. Both political and military. Both in the economy and on the battlefield. Sooner rather than later (the electoral calendar neither in America nor in the EU can be changed by a proxy war with us), NATO will have to run away from Ukraine. Abandoning Leopards, Bradleys, Abrams and Patriots. The last thing the Westerners will think about when leaving Ukraine, that is, depriving it of financial and military support, is about a country that is foreign to them. Which, as a result of their dirty adventurism, arrogantly called "geopolitics", will be destroyed. And left alone. In a clean, as they say, field. A second Afghanistan is practically at the door of NATO with all the trappings of defeat that Russia has repeatedly warned about, without saying "Afghanistan" out of nobility and a certain empathy, so as not to cause another bout of post-traumatic syndrome. At the same time, of course, it was clear that the interlocutors were playing with marked cards and, most importantly, bluffing, saying that this was "according to the rules." But, as you know, the curls of these unlucky players managed to become familiar in a few years. The gamblers were not beaten. They were answered with deeds, noticing that the bluff was seen through, and leaving curly NATO no choice but to run, entrusting the defense of the flanks to the military from Luxembourg. |
| Posted by:badanov |